Stuff happens. Last year I was out for a morning cruise and ended up not driving for 11 months.

The engine stuck wide open for a few seconds before dropping to 3000 rpm. A cursory check found a frayed throttle cable.

I replaced the cable and it still idled fast. I reset the throttle body stop and it idled nicely at 1000 rpm.

Pulled the aftercooler and the throttle body had a big hole in the face. The stainless steel screw came out and was ingested by the engine.

The shaft was broken also. This BDL throttle body has been a pain in the ass for years. I had to return it to BDL a couple years back to fix

poor workmanship.

I ended up purchasing the 74mm Skunk II and enlarging the manifold. I dabbed some JB Weld on the screws for insurance.

Now comes the fun part. I performed a leak down test and it was 50% abnormal to cylinder #4. Oops, bent valve.


Since it was to be down I decided to change the supercharger drive pulley setup.

I called Lee at ASP and had a new set of pulleys built. Eight ribs and larger with the crank pulley being enlarged from 6 inches to 7.5 inches.

The supercharger pulley was 4 inches. Same ratio, 6 to 3.2 is the same as 7.5 to 4.


I had a head built with porting, oversized valves, Inconel exhaust valves, ti retainers and all the bells and whistles.

Pulled the old head and the #4 piston and wall were showing signs of the stainless steel screw sticking around for a few seconds.

Sent the bottom end off to Mike Laskey at Laskey Racing to work his magic.

 

I decided to up the compression a tad and went with CP 10:1 pistons. Took the bottom end and head to Tony Fuchs

to assemble.

As of this morning it is running strong. After break in I will post up some performance numbers.

 

Some drive pictures:

 

Looks good! Must feel nice to have it running again!

 

I was thinking the same!

 

Glad to see the S2K veteran getting the S back on the road. Not many of us true veterans around from the beginning it doesn't seem anymore or maybe there are more in the NA section I haven't kept up with.

 

I was wondering how you got your crank pulley to fit with your water pump pulley. I increased the diameter of mine to 7" and had to have slightly smaller diameter water pump pulley made.

 

Nice! I seen your car there at Tony's for a while. I'm having Tony do work on mine as well. Gonna get a full on valve job done on the head probably in the next few weeks. Is there a big benefit (power to money ratio) to porting the head or is it just to squeeze a little bit more out of it?

 

That's b/c everyone else wised up and quit dumping $$ into this hobby, but the tried and true of us are still here.

 

Good to see your up and running again.